Posted on 07/27/2012 1:06:39 PM PDT by Zakeet
The shooting suspect in the Colorado theater rampage was seeing a university psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia in the weeks before the July 20 attack, according to court records released Friday.
James Holmes was seeing Lynne Fenton, the director of student mental health services at the University of Colorado and a medical school professor. Holmes was a first-year graduate student in a neuroscience Ph.D. program.
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Fenton, medical director of the counseling facility, has written numerous papers and launched research in the area of schizophrenia. She did not respond to calls to her home and office.
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Charles Whitman was seeing a psychiatrist too and even told him that sometimes he felt like taking a rifle up into the tower and shooting people.
I bet Jimmy Holmes said some similiar things.
"The facts in this case are not all known, but we do know that the doc failed"
A contradiction no? Aren't YOU jumping on the doc?
Please reread our posts. Neither one of us was singling out Lynne Fenton or James Holmes or have mentioned them. We were commenting in general.
Kindly moderate someone else.
I never suggested hating anyone. BTW, some comments here were made in obvious jest on my part. Did you not know that? For the record, it's only Holmes fault. Based on evidence, no one else is to blame. Hope this clarification helps.
Oh and sorry, I missed ur reply earlier, got sidetracked..
Take care.
This shrink is in the hot seat and her taxpayer funded university is going to do its best, spending millions to shield her and obfuscate any connections between her and the mass murderer
I was not moderating you, but complaining about other people moderating. There’s no reason people should be held back from expressing theories of why this went wrong and who should be held responsible. I think the doc failed and I am calling this doc out. She should not be protected by default or protected by the fact that mental illness is difficult to treat. Sometimes it is not all that difficult and people fail.
I agree. I’m pretty pessimistic that we will see any real investigation of her role. The problem with mass murderers is the murderer is responsible but a myriad of people along the way drop the ball. Maybe it’s an innocent mistake (or series of mistakes) or maybe not.
If I'm a psychiatrist, and a patient says he's going to kill "Jane Smith", how the hell am I supposed to find out Jane's contact info? Tell my homicidal patient "I'm supposed to report you to the police, could you please give me Jane's phone# so I can warn her too?" Is the psych supposed to retain his own detective agency? It should be the police's job.
You remember how Penn State white washed Michael Mann? Same thing will happen here if this shrink is somewhat to blame. Colorado State University will circle its wagons to protect its own against an “unfair and hostile world”. And will gladly spend millions of taxpayer dollars to do so
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